After starting an unfortunate trend for the franchise, James Cameron defends Terminator 2's trailer spoiling its big twist of Arnold Schwarzenegger being good. 'All of us have had our battles with the Suits, but the case you mention was not a battle...'
Despite it being a point of infamy for the franchise, James Cameron is speaking in defense of Terminator 2: Judgment Day's trailer spoiling the good Terminator reveal. The second installment in Cameron's sci-fi series picked up 11 years after its predecessor as a reprogrammed version of Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 is sent to 1995 to protect a teenage John Connor from the liquid metal-based T-1000 sent by Skynet to kill him.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In a recent Empire Q&A featuring questions from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showrunner Patrick McKay, James Cameron addressed the infamous Terminator 2: Judgment Day trailer spoiling the film's good Terminator reveal. Cameron explained that this was not a battle he lost with the studio, as he "led the charge on marketing," but rather stemmed from him looking to put the best story element forward to sell the movie.
All of us have had our battles with the Suits, but the case you mention was not a battle. The Carolco guys, Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna, were good partners with me on T2, and I led the charge on marketing, including showing Arnold as the good guy. It wasn’t a Sixth Sense kind of twist that’s revealed only at the end of the film. He's revealed as the Protector at the end of Act One. And I always feel you lead with your strongest story element in selling a movie.
One of the first trailers for 2009's future-set Terminator Salvation featured the reveal that Sam Worthington's Marcus was a person who believed himself to be human, only to be mortified to learn he is a Skynet machine. The film itself not only opened with Marcus being on death row before Judgment Day, but also follows him as its protagonist for most of the plot, with the reveal not coming until roughly the halfway point of the movie.
Following these various slip-ups, the most recent installment in the franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate, surprisingly took to keeping its big reveal of killing John Connor off in the opening moments out of its marketing. The plot twist still made its way out to the world thanks to spoilers leaked online which, when paired with a general fatigue for the franchise, led to the film's downfall at the box office and subsequent franchise hiatus.
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